District Dynamos -- You Are the Library

The District Dynamos is a network of community driven oversight groups currently focusing on DC's public library system.

King Memorial Library Photo by Rob Goodspeed

The neglect of the DC's library system over decades has led to a serious erosion of the physical plant and library services offered to the residents of Washington, DC.

In recent years, the DC Public Library (DCPL) system has been uplifted by the DC City Council and Mayor with an increase in funding for capital projects at the central King Memorial Library and the surrounding neighborhood branch libraries. The new funding has been directed at fixing immediate repairs at the central library and conducting more comprehensive library transformations among several branch libraries.

Currently, the Chief Librarian and Board of Library Trustees (BOLT) have been given the reigns over how the new infusion of much needed funding is spent. Many residents expected more thorough consultation with the public by DCPL and BOLT, but have not seen a bigger oversight role materialize.

The District Dynamos seeks to involve District residents in the transformation of our library system in a more meaningful and proactive way.

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Join Tenleytown residents in their struggle for a new library...

• Neighborhood Library Dynamos

  Neighborhood library dynamos forming to protect the public interest in the DC Public library.

• City Finds Funds, Avoids Cutting Hours

  Despite a listless Board of Library Trustees who felt cuts had to be made, Mayor Fenty saw that our District libraries needed money and found two million dollars to make sure there were no reductions in library operating hours.

• Speakout and Read-In for the best possible Shaw Library

  Ward 2 residents want and deserve more from the design & plans of our new library. Come out and be part of that on Saturday, August 16 from Noon to 2pm at the Shaw Giant.

• The Evolution of a Ward 2 Library

  Seven months later and the new Watha T. Daniel / Shaw library plans seem less majestic and more like the old Shaw library?!?

• Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2C Decries Poor Library Design Process

  ANC-2C, in the heart of Ward 2's Shaw neighborhood has made a public declaration decrying the poor design process for the new Watha T. Daniel / Shaw Library.

• Open Letter to Mayor Adrian Fenty from the Shaw Library Study Group

  The SLSG sends a letter explaining how difficult it has been working with an inept Board of Library Trustees.

• Contact the Library Renaissance Project